Cigar-cutter



W. GRAF.

GIGAR GUTTER.

(No Model.)

Patented Dee. 30, 1884.

UNTTED STATES PATENT EETCE.,

VILLIAM GRAF, OF MILWAUKEE, VISGONSIN.

ClGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,047, dated December 30. 1884. Application filed June 5, 1884. (No model.)

To ail whom, t may concern.-

Beit known that I, WILLIAM GRAF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Cutters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

After the wrapper has been applied to the bunch it is often found that the cigar will not draw freely.

The object of my invention is to provide means for readily slitting the head or shoulder of the bunch, so that when the wrapper is put on and the tuck out off there will be no possibility of the cigars drawing hard.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with a grooved bench and a transversely-arranged cutter a slotted concave bunchsupport, the latter being located transversely to the said bench and in line with the cutter. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improvement attached to a cigar-cutter. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a detail lplan view of the .support for the bunch.

Like letters refer to like parts.

For the purposes of the present case I will showmy bunch-support attached as an improvement to the form of cigar-cutter shown in Patent No. 291,379, January 1,1884. This may be generally described as having ameasured supporting-groove, d, a shear and shearplate, S l?, a rotary tuck-cutter, G, attached to the depending arm of the hand-piece H, and a rock-shaft and spring, R T, arranged at the back of the bench M, for the purpose of retracting the cutter.

Transversely to the end of groove d, but on a line with the cutter C, a bunch-support, K, is rigidly attached to the side of bench M. This support is concave, and may be of any suitable length.

ais an integral lateral arm, which is fastened to the bench by the screw t. The slot c gives room for theeXtensiou of the shear S, and also permits the descending cutter C to pass sufficiently within the support K to effectually slit the bunch without striking metal. If the screw t will not hold the support sufi-lciently, another can be passed through the depending arm c. (See Fig. 2.) In order that the hand-piece H may not strike the bunch when down, it will be well to cut off a portion of the bend, as ath, Fig. 1.

It is not necessary to describe the cutter as a whole, and it will now be understood how my improvement can be applied to it, or to any other having a knife similarly arranged; and I do not confine myself to a cigar-cutter having a rotary knife, as my improvement can easily be adapted to cutters having the old style of knife.

By attaching the support K to a cigar-cutter substantially as shown, the cutter may be made to do the work of two knives, and there is no need of removing the bunch to a separate device or of interfering with the special purpose of groove d.

I am aware that the bunch has been pierced with needles; but, as is well known, this does not always displace the filler enough to give free draft and requires a somewhat cumbrous mechanism.

In the simple attachment I provide nothing is interfered with, and the bunch, after being slit at either end, as the case may be, cannot be compressed by the Wrapper enough to prevent free draft, and the usual rolling'of the cigar on the board need not be done.

Apart from the construction of the support i and its legitimate combination with necessary parts, I disclaim, expressly, the cigar-cutter shown, as that is covered by the patent above mentioned.

, I am also aware that a supplementary knife has been attached at right angles to a nonrotating cigar-cutter for the purpose of slitting the tuck removed by the cutter, so that it maybe used again for filling; and I disclaim any such construction,-. having no such purpose in view. v

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, S ,i

1. In a cigar-cutter, the combination of a IOO grooved beneh, a transversely-arranged euter, and a slotted concave bunch-support, the latter being arranged transversely to the grooved bench and in line with Jshe cutter7 as seb forth. I 2. In a cigar-Gruber, the Combination of a l grooved bench7 a transversely-arranged rotary 1 cutter, and a slotted concave bunch-support, the lat-ter being arranged transversely to the i grooved bench and in line with the cutter, as Io set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM GRAF.

Vtn esses:

H. SEGMrrZ, A. MENDNL. 

